We love Bergeson’s We just made our anual trek to Bergeson Nursery yesterday. Yes, there are nurseries that are closer and many that are cheaper. So why would we travel 80 miles to go to this one? My son joking with the locals. First: Locally grown. Most of the plants they carry are not only…
It can be a challenge getting herbs to survive our Midwest winters. But it looks like most of my herbs survived the winter OK. I mulched the St. John’s Wort and the Arnica Montana last fall. Both were new plants last year and both are hardy to Zone 5 (we live in Zone 4 and…
For Earth Day, I’m recycling some of my previous posts on recycling. Enjoy! Repurpose everything Here are lots of ways to Recycle and repurpose in your garden There are lots of uses for those plastic mesh bags. Here are just a few. Paint and decorate jars to store herbs in. Make reusable grocery bags. Many…
I recently read an article on Ten Skills Every Survivalist Should Know. It got me to thinking… I know a lot of people are prepping for some end-of-the-world-doomsday kind of event and in that case, these would be skills you’d want to know. But how likely is that? I think the more common skills one…
We’ll talk more about canning later in the year, but since we have a goal this month of Learning a New Skill, I thought I’d mention canning as a good skill to learn. Once you learn to can, you can be canning something almost every month, putting lots of ready-made dinners into your pantry. Which…
One of this month’s goals is to learn a new skill. How about learning to sew? Who sews any more? The art or skill of sewing has really fallen out of favor. When I was a kid, everyone took Home Ec (well, at least all the girls did. After all, I did grow up in Ye…